Breathing new life into the 318 in the Scamp!
Make sure your engine's clean, now. Can't have no dirty heads. All the engines here, are clean, boy. All the building in piston hell.
Digging this back up from the grave, this evening.
I like the way this looks;
It's so nice to buy parts that are what you expect them to be. It sure makes things move along.
I was shocked at how correct the balancer was, but then again, aside from high detergent oil, this engine has had a pretty cush life. I think I corrected it about a degree or maybe half a degree at TDC on the dial (-° @ .060" +° @ .060"/2 to find TDC).
These pistons rock quite a bit less than the others. Perfect skirt clearances against the bores across all 8 cyl, too. I'm pretty happy with how everything spec'd out on this engine.
Got the short block done and in the car. The urethane mounts required spanning the K frame ears a little and they will not deflect at all. It could stand the block even on the front mounts, alone. I had to remove the trans tailshaft eye bolt for additional crank to converter clearance, but none of the linkage or wiring had to come out for the trans.
It got dark, so still have to crawl under and do the flex plate bolts. I took the lifters back out to spin the engine, but the cam is in and ready to go. Went in beautiful, bearings are dead on, oil holes are great, much respect to Don Hackenberg for the bearing install and journal clearance checking.
Did some prep work for Amy's stickshift request. More on that soon.
.0175" out, going to round up and call it an .009" offset dowel. Ordered those and marked the direction on the bell. Checked crank depth and I have no idea if I'm going to have to drill until I do more measuring. Do all of that later.
302 heads are torqued to 85, sequenced 3 times as per Mr.Gasket requests, rather than twice, per my '68 Chrysler manual. I think I'll leave them there and check thickness before the intake is marked, centered and goes on, tomorrow with the valvetrain.
I dream of exhaust notes and photo shoots in go-go boots for the weekend.
Make sure your engine's clean, now. Can't have no dirty heads. All the engines here, are clean, boy. All the building in piston hell.
Digging this back up from the grave, this evening.
I like the way this looks;
It's so nice to buy parts that are what you expect them to be. It sure makes things move along.
I was shocked at how correct the balancer was, but then again, aside from high detergent oil, this engine has had a pretty cush life. I think I corrected it about a degree or maybe half a degree at TDC on the dial (-° @ .060" +° @ .060"/2 to find TDC).
These pistons rock quite a bit less than the others. Perfect skirt clearances against the bores across all 8 cyl, too. I'm pretty happy with how everything spec'd out on this engine.
Got the short block done and in the car. The urethane mounts required spanning the K frame ears a little and they will not deflect at all. It could stand the block even on the front mounts, alone. I had to remove the trans tailshaft eye bolt for additional crank to converter clearance, but none of the linkage or wiring had to come out for the trans.
It got dark, so still have to crawl under and do the flex plate bolts. I took the lifters back out to spin the engine, but the cam is in and ready to go. Went in beautiful, bearings are dead on, oil holes are great, much respect to Don Hackenberg for the bearing install and journal clearance checking.
Did some prep work for Amy's stickshift request. More on that soon.
.0175" out, going to round up and call it an .009" offset dowel. Ordered those and marked the direction on the bell. Checked crank depth and I have no idea if I'm going to have to drill until I do more measuring. Do all of that later.
302 heads are torqued to 85, sequenced 3 times as per Mr.Gasket requests, rather than twice, per my '68 Chrysler manual. I think I'll leave them there and check thickness before the intake is marked, centered and goes on, tomorrow with the valvetrain.
I dream of exhaust notes and photo shoots in go-go boots for the weekend.